René Semelaigne (12 December 1855 – 16 November 1934) was a French

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

and biographer born in

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. He was the son of psychiatrist Armand Semelaigne (1820–1898) and a great-nephew of Philippe Pinel (1745-1826). As a psychiatrist, he served as director of the Maison de santé de la Folie Saint-James à Neuilly. He is remembered for his historical studies of psychiatry, being the author of three well-regarded works: * ''Les grands aliénistes français'' (1894) - The great French alienists. Involves biographical studies of Pinel, Esquirol, Ferrus, Falret,

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and Georget. * ''Aliénistes et philanthropes. Les Pinel et les Tuke'' (1912) - Alienists and

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s. Pinel and Tuke. *
Les pionniers de la psychiatrie française avant et après Pinel
' - The pioneers of French psychiatry before and after Pinel; Volume 1, Paris, JB Bailliere and Son, 1930 and Volume 2, 1932.
(Written works)

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